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SoE Live attendees who play Dragon's Prophet will receive a free exclusive Nagafen dragon for their stable.

https://www.dragonsprophetthegame.com/news/nagafen-is-coming

Do you think this is a cool promotion or a cheap PR grab like many of Smedley's tweets? Do you think game lore should stay in its own universe?

I don't think cross game promotions are bad, but I do think for certain lores iconic figures cheapen the representation. You would think this would be cool for a game that is about collecting dragons, but Nagafen is a special dragon and the DP dragon's are a dime a dozen. In my opinion is detracts from the iconic persona that Nagafen represents. I think it also reinforces the signals that SoE has sent lately with Dragon's Prophet and EQ2 that it cares much more about pulling in revenue than it does with the integrity of its games, IPs, and most importantly the playerbase that supports it.

What do you think?

Are you serious? Why do we need this thread? Is your dislike of SOE and Smedley so strong that you just felt compelled to post this?

That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!

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Some of you are really defensive. About what I'm not sure because I'm not flaming them. I'm more just curious why people like or don't like certain promotions. I felt obligated to say why I didn't like this promotion.

Just to contrast I do like how they're marketing the remake of the original box art and integrating thee unlocks with various social media. The new concept art is interesting. The marketing campaign is inclusive, not exclusive. I like that.

I'm not the best communicator, so what I was most interested in hearing was how you like or don't like marketing, not so much whether I'm right or wrong for my opinion, although you're free to comment on that. If you think it's brilliant to market cross IP like this, then why? If you don't like the concept art campaign but think this is okay then why? More looking for thoughts not judgements on whether we should tar and feather SoE or people who like or hate them.

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I will add though that cross promotion in general is a sticky subject if it means putting in the lore or style entities of an entirely diffrerent game. Blizzard gets away with it because it's already a kooky game to begin with.

If they say, put in a PS2 laser rifle into EQN as a bow substitute that would be over the top. As far as staying in "genre" like the EQN dragon in DP? It would also seem strange to put known entities from DP into EQN. I'm all about getting lost into the world you're playing in so it would depend on how it's done.

I don't blame SoE for giving in game items for attendance as long as it doesn't give more power. I'm not sure if Naggy in DP will have more stats.

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Oh my. How dare they try to get people playing one of their games interested in another of their games. Or even worse yet, try to make those that play both games happy.

I can see it now... They will try to market EQNext to EQ1 and EQ2 players... the BASTARDS!

They're not really doing that though. They're using the EQ IP to market to another demographic. There's nothing wrong with that, but how they're doing it is the up for examination.

So how would you feel about a ranged weapon skin from Planetside 2 making its way into EQ:N as a cross game promotion? Or one of the dragon's prophet dragons as pets or mounts for example? How about a cosmetic outfit from Free Realms, especially one that doesn't quite fit the visual theme of the game?